No controversial figures will populate the dance floor this season on "Dancing With the Stars," as Gladys Knight was easily the most surprising name announced out of the dozen new cast members on "Good Morning America."

The only other sort of-surprise? Pro dancer Maksim Chermkovskiy, who caused headlines last season for his bad attitude, and claimed the reality dancing competition was "his show," will be back to dance again.

Some of the bigger names on the list included Jack Wagner, Sherri Shepherd, Gavin DeGraw and the guy who played 'Urkel,' also known as Jaleel White.

Plus, not a single political figure, even in an election year (Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann had already made it clear they weren

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Wasn't Katherine Jenkins on during classics week, where one of the Girls Next Door danced? No not the wedding obsessed blonde, the sporty blonde. I don't remember her name. There was the joke about her being a Soprano by the host.

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I kind of liked Sherry Sheppard but I am tired of her google-eyed, jive-talking act. Some of them are so bad that when you see someone good (the brit blonde, for instance) it makes you wonder why they even try. Jeez, Martina. Why?

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We were talking about the scores and how we missed the progress from week to week of growth and difficulty. This season has been like being presented with a full grown flower arrangement and just waiting for them to start wilting instead of seeing the flower grow and bloom.

I'm thinking that they could change the scoring paddles to colors to represent a mix of technicality and so forth. Make it more interesting.

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Watching last nights dances, Katherine Jenkins brought it all to the dance floor. She did very well with telling a story in dance without lyrics. I also saw some dances that felt like slow-mo with bursts of speed. I thik this might be the week that Gavin goes home, his dance was just meh. I wish I could watch the live results tonight except I've got a practice to plan out July's schedule.

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I LOVE Katharine, and I have grown to love Maria. I also love me some Donald Driver, and William is a sexy hunk of meat, but I don't really want him to win. All in all, a great final four. Any one of them could win it.

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What is this 24-hour dance marathon thing? I'm almost certain this is going to be another new thing like the three-some dances and the dance duels. I'm just not sure what it entails or how the dancer's are expected to do it.

editing because Robo-Poster found the info.

And in the final element of the competition on Tuesday, the three finalists perform a new routine in our "24 Hour Challenge" - in which they will have had 24 hours to pair their dance style of choice to music given to them after Monday night's show. This routine will be scored out of 30 and will round out the judges' scores across both nights.